Determining which Community and Business Groups should transition to Working Group

Now that the W3C has Community Groups and Business Groups, it's made a
task force [1] to try to work out what to do with them or, more
accurately, to work out what the groups want to do to themselves.

As Chair, I got to fill in a survey form about this Community Group.  My
current answers are below, and we have until 30 April to update the
answers as necessary.

Regards,


Tony.

[1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/Headlights2013/CG2WG

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Your Community Group or Business Group
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Please, name the Community Group or Business Group for which you are
submitting answers.

Name of your Community Group or Business Group: Print and Page Layout
Community Group


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State of your Community Group or Business Group
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Is your Community Group or Business Group:


 * ( ) Active and ongoing and nearing completion
 * ( ) Inactive because it has completed its work
 * (x) Active and ongoing and far from completion
 * ( ) Inactive because the original scope is no longer relevant or because
the CG never got momentum


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Goal of your Community Group or Business Group
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Is the goal of your Community Group or Business Group:


 * (x) To provide a specification
 * ( ) To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere
 * ( ) Other (please specify)
You checked "other", please specify:


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Status of the spec of your Community Group or Business Group
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What are your specification transition plans?

 * ( ) We have already handed off all or part of a specification to a
Working Group.

 * ( ) We plan to request that a specification transition to a Working
Group within six months.

 * ( ) We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a
Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so.
 * (x) We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group
(provide details in the next question).


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No transition to a Working Group
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We do not expect to transition to a Working Group for the following reasons
(check all that apply):


 * [x] Too early, insufficient number of implementations yet.
 * [ ] Too narrow, not a key part of the Open Web Platform.
 * [ ] A Community Group or Business Group is good enough, Working Groups
have too much bureaucracy.
 * [ ] We suspect that key players will not want to make Working Group
patent commitments.
 * [ ] Too many key players are not Members of W3C and would not want to
follow the work into a Working Group.
 * [ ] Other (please specify).
You checked "other", please specify:


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Open comments
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Please, let us us know of anything you feel is relevant to complete your
answers.

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments):

Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 13:56:18 UTC